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Would these comments and behaviours be reasonable deal breakers in dating?

335 replies

RedflagGreenflag · 27/07/2026 17:50

I've was dating someone for a few months (met on Hinge, mid 40s)and am reflecting on my standards and self-esteem in the wake of it ending. Which, if any, would be deal breakers or have caused you serious concern?

-made a few silly sexual jokes whilst messaging, before we met eg..I asked him if he played a musical instrument and he made a joke about wanking
-first date in a coffee shop, I removed a long sleeved top as was too warm (had another top on underneath obvs) and he went "wahaaayyy" as if I was stripping
-made a joke about all women having a base level of psycho
-referred to disabled people as "Scopey"
-met a colleague of min at a works do and told me she was "rough" and this is why he doesn't date women from her area
-despite the fact he is on amicable terms with his ex wife, told me laughingly, when she asked for a divorce, that he had called her a "fat old witch" and threatened to take her pension
-told me inappropriate details about his ex including that she was restricted in sexual positions she could do due to bad hip and that she could orgasm immediately from anal sex (he told me this whilst we were in bed by way of praising my comparative flexibility)
-said "You look lovely in your dress; my ex wife never wore them because of her body type"
-met an acquaintance of mine and said "You're naturally beautiful, not like women like that who plaster on the make up"
-when I was trying to encourage him to get o know me better and asked if there was anything he wanted to know about me (cause I had tried to ask him lots about himself) he said "What is the smallest penis out there have encountered?
-told me, in bed, that he had yet to encounter a smelly vagina
-told me he had dumped a woman as her pubic hair was too long (after avoiding having sex with her for weeks)
-shortly after we began a sexual relationship, told me he thought genitals in general were gross and then was annoyed with me when I went a bit quiet and distant for a few minutes after he said that
-first time we had sex, he seemed clueless despite being married before and many relationships. He kissed me for a while and I was expecting some foreplay (I know I could have initiated this but I had lead on taking him up to my bedroom and removing clothes so didn't want to lead ointment everything). Without so much as touching me intimately, he entered me without a condom. He stopped as soon as I told him to and was visibly upset and said he thought I had wanted it as we were naked and he was laying on top of me. He was genuinely upset and I ended up comforting him!
-I disclosed to him that I had been sexually assaulted in a previous relationship. Despite this, he sent me a GIF that appeared to be of a woman being assaulted, face down on the floor and crying..looked like really rough porn but you could only see her face.
-he had some very laddish mates and he said he didn't judge them for sleeping with prostitutes although it was not something he would do. Told me they had all been giggling in the pub about some story about a woman with a massive anus.
-in a weird coincidence, a mate of his turned up at my house to collect something I had listed on marketplace. He arrived 15 minutes earlier that agreed and ex and I were in bed. When ex realised who it was, he got dressed and said hi his mate. he later told me that the incident had been the subject of joking on their group WhatsApp, with one them writing "He was just pulling out of her as he arrived!"

I felt unsettled with him lot. Would the above reasonably explain that? I have very poor self esteem and anxious attachment style and I am trying to work out if there were reasons outside of that which would make others feel insecure in this dynamic. He was affectionate, attractive, a good dad, good to his mum, a professional, kind to animals, funny, lots of friends and very keen on me. He would send gushing messages and romantic songs and GIFs a lot. He seemed quite future -focused with wanting to progress the relationship quickly. He made me feel very chosen. He was not the type to ask me things about how many men I had slept and liked natural-looking women. So there were lots of good things about him too.

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Whatwouldnanado · 27/07/2026 17:54

Surely you know the answer to this! I would’ve blocked him and moved along after the message described in your first paragraph. Vile and moronic.

Ohdearnotthisagain · 27/07/2026 17:54

Any of these things would be deal breakers for me. It’s good you are checking as you need to raise your standards by a large margin.

JoyousWriter · 27/07/2026 17:54

That's a lot of different incidents.

Idontjetwashthefucker · 27/07/2026 17:55

I'm amazed you have to ask

Retrolady13 · 27/07/2026 17:55

Don't even consider seeing this pig ignorant moron again. How on earth could you have ever got into bed with him?

rubyslippers · 27/07/2026 17:56

🤢🤮🤢🤮

Sodthesystem · 27/07/2026 17:56

Always keep this in mind: if they don’t like women - they don’t like you.

Petuniapetals · 27/07/2026 17:57

I only read about half of what you’ve written but that was enough. Quite nauseating .Raise your game or, perhaps better still, stay single. You’ll feel better for it.

Noluthando · 27/07/2026 17:59

after point two it was a no.
after point three it was a hell no.

Sodthesystem · 27/07/2026 17:59

Also, I’d probably regard it as a sexual assault if someone tried to fuck me with no foreplay and before asking regarding a condom.

And, he’s not clueless about sex. He just doesn’t care about your pleasure.

LividSummery · 27/07/2026 18:00

In the nicest possible way you REALLY need to work out how he got past the messages and into the first date, never mind how you let him have sex with you.

Your bar is on the floor.

Lararoft · 27/07/2026 18:03

Ew no, I take it you’ve dumped him?

SanFranBear · 27/07/2026 18:03

That's one man? Bloody hell - just awful and whilst not all dealbreakers, they appear to be indicative of him being a total prick!

toomanycoffeecups · 27/07/2026 18:03

You need to up your game. Cant believe you slept with him after the first handful of misogynistic comments.

Switherings · 27/07/2026 18:04

Respectfully, OP, this is dating. You can dump someone for any reason. He likes Ken Follett, his kinks aren't your thing, he holds his knife like a pen. All things you list are obvious deal-breakers for anyone with normal self-esteem and healthy expectations in a relationship. Forget about him. Have therapy to try to figure out how you thought any of this was OK, ever, far less for months,

Lararoft · 27/07/2026 18:04

Sorry just re read & it’s over - after a few months.
It would be over after the first couple of dodgy comments for me.

RedflagGreenflag · 27/07/2026 18:05

he was actually really nervous the first time we had sex.

I tried to teach him how I like to be touched (this was not the first time we were intimate but several weeks in) and WHILST he was touching me, he was nervously going on about how fussy his ex wife was regarding where and how she liked to be touched. He did seem very unsure sexually.

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LetMeGoogleThat · 27/07/2026 18:05

Eww, well rid!

MarthaLovesLaughing · 27/07/2026 18:08

Christ on a bike. What an utter tosser

MrsPorridgepot · 27/07/2026 18:18

The very first thing would have been enough for me to say not for me. The rest are all grim. The being kind to animals and his Mum don’t excuse the grimness. I’d suggest you work on what your boundaries are, and which you were okay with and which you just put up with and why you did that. It might help for future dating.

RedflagGreenflag · 27/07/2026 18:24

MrsPorridgepot · 27/07/2026 18:18

The very first thing would have been enough for me to say not for me. The rest are all grim. The being kind to animals and his Mum don’t excuse the grimness. I’d suggest you work on what your boundaries are, and which you were okay with and which you just put up with and why you did that. It might help for future dating.

I suppose I saw the whole package and there were significant good points too. I thought the fact that his ex wife is still friendly with him (because she wants to maintain contact with his son/her step son) and that he looks after his mum must mean that he doesn’t really hate women.

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RedflagGreenflag · 27/07/2026 18:25

He did tell me that he loved me after just 6 or 7 dates. I’ve been told that is lovebombjng but then I hear countless tales of people on here who fell in love quickly and are still together 20 years later. So when is it love bombing and when is it genuine love?

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Sodthesystem · 27/07/2026 18:27

RedflagGreenflag · 27/07/2026 18:05

he was actually really nervous the first time we had sex.

I tried to teach him how I like to be touched (this was not the first time we were intimate but several weeks in) and WHILST he was touching me, he was nervously going on about how fussy his ex wife was regarding where and how she liked to be touched. He did seem very unsure sexually.

Probably because he never cared to ask her what she wanted but he had to pretend to be interested in you because it’s early days.

Tbh it sounds like he was just trying to make you feel like it was an inconvenience for him to have to learn what you want and imply to you that a woman’s desires are “fussy”. His talk designed to make you just drop the subject.

wizzywig · 27/07/2026 18:28

I think his emotional development in relationships stopped when he married so he still thinks its the 1990s

starryeyed19 · 27/07/2026 18:28

Absolutely end this. That is not a good man.